Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . one of them being Niccolo Machiavelli, who since June 1498(three weeks after Savonarolas martyrdom) had been the ^ The exact spot, near the door of the famous Medicean Library in Marco (the convent adjoining the church), where Savonarola was arrested ismarked by a tablet, and in the Piazza della Signoria a slightly elevated bronzeplate now marks the spot where he and
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . one of them being Niccolo Machiavelli, who since June 1498(three weeks after Savonarolas martyrdom) had been the ^ The exact spot, near the door of the famous Medicean Library in Marco (the convent adjoining the church), where Savonarola was arrested ismarked by a tablet, and in the Piazza della Signoria a slightly elevated bronzeplate now marks the spot where he and his two companions were hangedand burnt. On May 23 this plate is generally covered with wreaths, but atother times it is exposed rather shamefully to attrition and pollution. Savona-rola relics are to be seen in the convent (Museum). 343 ITALY FkOM DANTE TO TASSO chief secretary of the Signoria; ^ and it is noticeable that amaxim similar to that propounded by Machiavelli as to theadvisability of securing a constitutional despot seems tohave now once more regained approval at Florence, for erelong (1502) we shall find the office of the Gonf aloniere bestowedfor life on Piero Soderini, son of that Tommaso Soderini who. PRIVATE CRESTS Olf THE MEDICI(See pp. 313, 316) lent his generous and powerful support to the accession ofthe young I^orenzo de Medici. It was this Piero Soderini who, in 1503, invited I^eonardo daVinci and Michelangelo to prepare designs for decorating thegreat Sola which had been built for the Maggior Consiglio ofSavonarola. And here let us note that about the time ofSavonarolas martyrdom I^eonardo had finished painting hiswondrous fresco of the I^ast Supper in the Refectory of S. Mariadelle Grazie at Milan, and that a short time after the sametragedy Baccio della Porta began his first great sacred painting ^ Also of the Died di Balia. To judge from a letter written by Machiavelliin March 1498, he felt nothing but contemptuous dislike for Savonarola, whomhe late
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